You never know what surprise nature has in store...each moment.
We returned to Boulder City to hike the 'color mountains', Black and Red, because snow was falling when we arrived at the Calico Basin area hike earlier that day. We find these two irresistible because they are reasonable workouts but in addition, the sights are always fantastic and vary greatly. Standing on either peak, one has views of the city below, Las Vegas in the near distance and Lake Mead on the opposite side as well as many mountain ranges both in the state as well as in Utah and Arizona. Add sunrises, sunsets, the bighorns, snow-covered mountains and there's not much else a person needs for the recipe of life with nature.
Not often we see this background in Las Vegas; from Red Mountain. Contrast with similar picture below.
A week before above picture, early evening from the summit of Black Mountain.
On the way down Black Mountain, looking toward Arizona and Utah as sun catches a section of the snow-covered mountains
while a plane descends.
12 days previously, we climbed Turtlehead Peak in high winds but no snow.
Jenni gazes at her nemesis, the Frenchman, a previous hike.
We were turned away from this area when it began to snow and would've been on treacherous cliff edges. Nevertheless,
we enjoyed the color contrast.
The telephoto from Black Mountain shows the bridge at Hoover Dam and rugged surround.
Bighorn sheep with Lake Mead and Hoover Dam in rear, at sunset.
Biased or not, Lake Mead is an incredible body of water surrounded by mountains and desert.
Perhaps, sultry.
A wind-blown editor at sunset on Black Mountain.
Bighorn dares us to follow...for once, we were too smart or, too fearful.
Fading light in a unique position. Fortification Hill sloping in the background (part of that mountain or perhaps,
all of it, is in Arizona.)
A golden moment as sun shines on the narrow 'pedestal' only.
Cheers,
Jenni and Jeffrey
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